you will get excellent results for low effort with the Microsoft tools when doing anything "normal" If you have basic LaTeX skills, you get excellent results f

you will get excellent results for low effort with the Microsoft tools when doing anything "normal" If you have basic LaTeX skills, you get excellent results for low effort with LaTeX when doing anything normal. For example, I tried really hard to use TeX for my resume. It was a tremendous pain for weeks, and the most popular template hadn't been updated since 1970. As far as my resume is concerned, I can't share your complaint: using an up-to-date template generated by somebody else, it was very easy to adjust it to my needs to get a decent looking resume in no time. (La)TeX can be quite a hassle for some (mostly complex) issues. But especially for easy tasks, it beats Word and alike easily IMO.